Example sentences of "they [verb] be that of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age . |
| 2 | The context in which they arose was that of the capitalist world economy and imperialism ; hence there has also been , in many of these movements a substantial socialist influence , and in some countries , notably in China , nationalist movements have culminated in a social revolution . |
| 3 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 4 | One example they give is that of Home Office statistics on drug addicts that show only those addicts that are registered . |
| 5 | When predicated of any individual feeling , the information they convey is that of its likeness to the other feelings which we have been accustomed to call by the same name . |